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Title: Special hygienic and medical information for parents
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Dewey, B. M
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Human reproduction
Publisher: Chicago, Knight & Leonard, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ndlaw, viz., propagation of the species, is enforcedmore rigorously. The bible teaches the samefact — Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenishthe earth, is about the first command given. THE FLOWERS OF THE FIELD, WHAT ARE THEY? The flowers of the field, that are so beautifulto the eye, whose fragrance is so pleasing to thesense of smell, whose beauty so refines the intel-lect and spiritualizes the soul, are, in reality, thereproductive organs of the plant supportingthem. Take the lily and analyze it. The co-rolla, or flower proper, is composed of six petals, SEXUAL EVOLUTION. 2Q or flower leaves. In the center of the corollaare six filiform, thread-like bodies, termed sta-mens. At the upper extremity of each of thestamens is a hollow globular organ, termed theanther. These stamens constitute the male or-gans of the plant. The anthers are the testes,six in number. They form the pollen, which isthe semen of the plant. The next part of theflower to which we invite your attention is the
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pistil. The pistil is the female generative organ.,In the lily there is but one, but in some flowersthere are many. The pistil is a long, thread-likeorgan, arising from the same base as the sta-mens. It is longer than the stamens, and towersup above them. The pistil is divided into threeparts, the germ, style and stigma. The germ isthe part attached to the flower. It contains theseed, or rather the rudiments of the fruit in an 30 PHENOMENA OF HEALTH. unformed stage. The germ corresponds to theovary in the animal. The style is a hollow tubereaching from the germ to the stigma, or openmouth situated at the upper extremity of thepistil. The style corresponds to the vagina (orbirth passage) of animals. The stigma is theanalogue of the vulva (external organ of gener-ation in the female of the higher animals). HOW ARE PLANTS FECUNDATED? The pollen, or seminal powder of the anther,is wafted by the breezes to the stigma, or openmouth of the pistil. Thence the fecundatingpowder passes down to

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